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The Head of State and his guests will witness the pbadage of some 4290 soldiers, 220 vehicles, 250 horses, 64 aircraft and 30 helicopters.
A procession of 14 July under the sign of brotherhood of arms . The troops honored this year on the Champs-Élysées will be the military and members of the police force – police, firefighters and civil security soldiers who were mobilized after the pbadage of Hurricane Irma in the West Indies, last September. A complementarity of means, civil and military which will be illustrated by 305 personnel belonging to 13 different units.
In the presidential tribune, two Asian personalities will surround Emmanuel Macron: the Singaporean Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, and the head of diplomacy Japanese, Taro Kono – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been detained in Japan by the deadly weather that has plagued the archipelago. The parade on foot will be opened by the emblems of the Japanese and Singaporean armed forces and an emblem of the French Navy.
The Head of State and his guests will witness the pbadage of some 4290 soldiers, 220 vehicles, 250 horses, 64 aircraft and 30 helicopters. According to tradition, the Patrouille de France will open the military parade. Nine Alphajet, will fly over the large Parisian artery training "Big Nine", drawing the tricolor flag with their smoke pods.
Among the forces being honored this year are the 130-year-old mountain troops and the 70-year-old United Nations peacekeeping operation. The descent of the Champs-Élysées by the command of cyberdefense will illustrate the importance taken by this capability in operations.
For the first time, the Airbus A 330 MRTT (Multi Role Transport Tanker) parade in the skies of Paris . A highly anticipated aircraft, which will replace the old C 135 tankers and will be able to provide both personnel and freight transport missions and air refueling and intelligence relay. The operational commissioning of this essential tool for power projection is announced for 2019.
The first twelve MRTTs provided by the Military Programming Act (LPM) – on 15 aircraft – are to be delivered by 2023. The air show will also feature an M346 training aircraft from Singapore, an Alphajet from the Belgian air component and an A 400M from the German Air Force alongside French aircraft to illustrate the links with these various partners.
The initial animation of the parade will highlight special formations of the Republican Guard. For the first time, its three units, mounted, on foot and motorized, will be united to form a carousel. The closing sequence will allow a set of military music to evolve.
After the parade, a public relations operation, "The French meet their armies", will take place on the esplanade des Invalides. Moments of encounter between the armies and the nation that are usually very popular even if this year, the public will perhaps especially be in mind the football final of the next day …
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